>-----Original Message----- >From: Andre Detsch [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 1:37 PM >To: Tantilov, Emil S >Cc: [email protected]; Kirsher, Jeffrey T >Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe MSI-X regression on powerpc > >Sorry for the very long delay, partly caused by my vacation. > >On 07/06/2010 04:16 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: >> Just to give you an update. I found a power6 system (520), but for some >reason the driver fails to obtain MSI-X interrupts. The issue is different >from the one you are seeing - the call to pci_enable_msix fails with -28. I >tried other drivers with the same result. >> >> Do you have any ideas on what could be wrong? Could you provide your >kernel config? > >You probably need to update the machine's firmware. Older versions do >not have MSI-X support.
We figured that may be the case, but unfortunately the update failed. We are now trying to get support from IBM. Thanks for confirming we need an updated FW. >There is nothing special in my kernel config. ppc64_config should work. > > >> Also, if you could file a bug at e1000.sf.net that would be great. > >Created bug id 3043936 > ><https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=447449&aid=3043936&group >_id=42302> Thanks, Emil > > >Thanks, > >-- >AndrĂ© Detsch >Kernel Software Engineer - Network Device Drivers >Linux Technology Center Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
